Congress Should Tell Obama No

September 10, 2013|Letter to the editor

The editorial "Never Again" refers to an "international community" [Sept. 8]. But there is no "international community" and there never has been. The League of Nations was a failure and the "war to end all wars" didn't.

If the U.S. is to take on the job of international "enforcer," it needs the moral authority and economic means to do so. A country that engages in endless wars against countries that never attacked us and probably couldn't does not look like a moral leader. We torture people all over the world and run places like Guantanamo and Abu Gharib. We have enough weapons of mass destruction to destroy the entire world and the means to deliver them.

President Obama has (correctly) made the constitutionally obligatory step of going to Congress. Our nation is $17 trillion in debt. Congress should say, "No! We're broke."